The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.